Common use of PROFICIENCY LEVELS Clause in Contracts

PROFICIENCY LEVELS. BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT  Achieves agreement or consensus in an adversarial environment;  Guides the municipality through complexity and uncertainty of vision;  Leads and unites diverse workgroups across municipal departments to achieve municipality objectives, and  Develops and implements risk management.  Articulates basic financial concepts and techniques as they relate to municipal processes and tasks (e.g. performance budgeting and value for money);  Is familiar with the different sources of financial data, reporting mechanisms and financial processes and systems;  Understands importance of financial accountability;  Understands the necessity for asset control;  Recognises key expenditure and financial accounting and reporting concepts;  Performs key financial management processes (expenditure, accounting and reporting) with guidance / direction;  Tracks and measures actual expenditure against budget; and  Understands the role of an audit function.  Demonstrates knowledge of general concepts of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting and how they interrelate;  manages, monitors and assess financial risk;  Continuously looks for new opportunities to obtain and save funds;  ensures the preparation of the financial reports based on prescribed format;  understands and weighs up financial implications of propositions;  ensures the control assets according to prescribed policies and procedures;  understands, analyses and monitors financial reports;  allocates resources to established goals and objectives;  Manage expenditure in relation to cash flow projections;  Ensures effective utilisation of financial resources;  Ensures key planning, budgeting and forecasting processes and is able to answer questions in relation to the municipality’s budget;  Ensures the management of the financial planning, forecasting and reporting processes;  Ensures the preparation of budgets that are aligned to the strategic objectives of the municipality’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP);  Addresses complex budgeting and financial management issues;  Ensures the formulation of long term financial plans and resource allocations;  Ensures the development and implementation of systems, procedures and processes in order to improve financial management;  Advise on policies and procedures regarding asset control;  Develops planning tools that assist with evaluating and monitoring future expenditure trends;  Ensures and monitors the setting of budgeting guidelines for the municipality;  Sets strategic direction for the organisation / department in relation to expenditure and other financial processes;  Ensures the identification and implementation of partnerships and explores other avenues to achieve financial savings and improved service delivery;  Ensures the identification and implementation of new techniques to improve asset control;  Evaluates financial impact of strategic decisions across the organisation; BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT  Develops corrective measures / actions to ensure alignment of budget to financial resources; and  Makes realistic projections in routine reports.  Dynamically allocates resources according to internal and external objectives;  Ensure the development of Expenditure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs);  Succeeds in achieving maximum results with limited resources;  Assists others with financial accounting \ reporting tasks; and  Analyse projections in reports.  Ensures the development of long-term plans, performance measures and budgets that are aligned with strategic objectives; and  Possesses financial acumen and understanding and runs the finances according to sound principles.

PROFICIENCY LEVELS. BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT  • Achieves agreement or consensus in an adversarial environment;  • Guides the municipality through complexity and uncertainty of vision;  • Leads and unites diverse workgroups across municipal departments to achieve municipality objectives, and  • Develops and implements risk management.  • Articulates basic financial concepts and techniques as they relate to municipal processes and tasks (e.g. performance budgeting and value for money);  • Is familiar with the different sources of financial data, reporting mechanisms and financial processes and systems;  • Understands importance of financial accountability;  • Understands the necessity for asset control;  • Recognises key expenditure and financial accounting and reporting concepts;  • Performs key financial management processes (expenditure, accounting and reporting) with guidance / direction;  • Tracks and measures actual expenditure against budget; and  • Understands the role of an audit function.  • Demonstrates knowledge of general concepts of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting and how they interrelate;  • manages, monitors and assess financial risk;  • Continuously looks for new opportunities to obtain and save funds;  • ensures the preparation of the financial reports based on prescribed format;  • understands and weighs up financial implications of propositions;  • ensures the control assets according to prescribed policies and procedures;  • understands, analyses and monitors financial reports;  • allocates resources to established goals and objectives;  • Manage expenditure in relation to cash flow projections;  • Ensures effective utilisation of financial resources;  • Ensures key planning, budgeting and forecasting processes and is able to answer questions in relation to the municipality’s budget;  • Ensures the management of the financial planning, forecasting and reporting processes;  • Ensures the preparation of budgets that are aligned to the strategic objectives of the municipality’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP);  • Addresses complex budgeting and financial management issues;  • Ensures the formulation of long term financial plans and resource allocations;  • Ensures the development and implementation of systems, procedures and processes in order to improve financial management;  • Advise on policies and procedures regarding asset control;  • Develops planning tools that assist with evaluating and monitoring future expenditure trends;  • Ensures and monitors the setting of budgeting guidelines for the municipality;  • Sets strategic direction for the organisation / department in relation to expenditure and other financial processes;  • Ensures the identification and implementation of partnerships and explores other avenues to achieve financial savings and improved service delivery;  • Ensures the identification and implementation of new techniques to improve asset control;  • Evaluates financial impact of strategic decisions across the organisation; BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT  • Develops corrective measures / actions to ensure alignment of budget to financial resources; and  • Makes realistic projections in routine reports.  • Dynamically allocates resources according to internal and external objectives;  • Ensure the development of Expenditure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs);  • Succeeds in achieving maximum results with limited resources;  • Assists others with financial accounting \ reporting tasks; and  • Analyse projections in reports.  • Ensures the development of long-term plans, performance measures and budgets that are aligned with strategic objectives; and  • Possesses financial acumen and understanding and runs the finances according to sound principles.

PROFICIENCY LEVELS. BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT  Achieves achieves agreement or consensus in an adversarial environment;  Guides guides the municipality through complexity and uncertainty of vision;  Leads leads and unites diverse workgroups across municipal departments to achieve municipality objectives, and  Develops develops and implements risk management.  Articulates basic financial concepts and techniques as they relate to municipal processes and tasks (e.g. performance budgeting and value for money);  Is is familiar with the different sources of financial data, reporting mechanisms and financial processes and systems;  Understands understands importance of financial accountability;  Understands understands the necessity for asset control;  Recognises recognises key expenditure and financial accounting and reporting concepts;  Performs performs key financial management processes (expenditure, accounting and reporting) with guidance / direction;  Tracks tracks and measures actual expenditure against budget; and  Understands understands the role of an audit function.  Demonstrates knowledge of general concepts of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting and how they interrelate;  manages, monitors and assess financial risk;  Continuously continuously looks for new opportunities to obtain and save funds;  ensures the preparation of the financial reports based on prescribed format;  understands and weighs up financial implications of propositions;  ensures the control assets according to prescribed policies and procedures;  understands, analyses and monitors financial reports;  allocates resources to established goals and objectives;  Manage manage expenditure in relation to cash flow projections;  Ensures ensures effective utilisation of financial resources;  Ensures key planning, budgeting and forecasting processes and is able to answer questions in relation to the municipality’s budget;  Ensures ensures the management of the financial planning, forecasting and reporting processes;  Ensures ensures the preparation of budgets that are aligned to the strategic objectives of the municipality’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP);  Addresses addresses complex budgeting and financial management issues;  Ensures ensures the formulation of long term financial plans and resource allocations;  Ensures ensures the development and implementation of systems, procedures and processes in order to improve financial management;  Advise advise on policies and procedures regarding asset control;  Develops planning tools that assist with evaluating and monitoring future expenditure trends;  Ensures ensures and monitors the setting of budgeting guidelines for the municipality;  Sets sets strategic direction for the organisation / department in relation to expenditure and other financial processes;  Ensures ensures the identification and implementation of partnerships and explores other avenues to achieve financial savings and improved service delivery;  Ensures ensures the identification and implementation of new techniques to improve asset control;  Evaluates evaluates financial impact of strategic decisions across the organisation; BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT  Develops develops corrective measures / actions to ensure alignment of budget to financial resources; and  Makes makes realistic projections in routine reports.  Dynamically dynamically allocates resources according to internal and external objectives;  Ensure ensure the development of Expenditure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs);  Succeeds succeeds in achieving maximum results with limited resources;  Assists assists others with financial accounting \ reporting tasks; and  Analyse analyse projections in reports.  Ensures ensures the development of long-term plans, performance measures and budgets that are aligned with strategic objectives; and  Possesses possesses financial acumen and understanding and runs the finances according to sound principles.